Something doesn't sound right here. Why do you need wildcards for queries in the first place? Are you finding that with stopword removal and stemming you are not matching some docs that you think should be matched? If so, we may be able to help if you provide a few examples.
Otis -- Sematext is hiring -- http://sematext.com/about/jobs.html?mls Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Katta, Hadoop, HBase, UIMA, NLP, NER, IR ----- Original Message ---- > From: Cory Ondrejka <cory.ondre...@gmail.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Sat, November 14, 2009 12:57:56 PM > Subject: converting over from sphinx > > I've been using Sphinx for full text search, but since I want to move my > project over to Heroku, need to switch to Solr. Everything's up and running > using the acts_as_solr plugin, but I'm curious if I'm using Solr the right > way. In particular, I'm doing phrase searching into a corpus of > descriptions, such as "I need help with a foo" where I have a bunch of "foo: > a foo is a subset of a bar often used to create briznatzes", etc. > > With Sphinx, I could convert "I need help with a foo" into "*need* *help* > *with* *foo*" and get pretty nice matches. With Solr, my understanding is > that you can only do wildcard matches on the suffix. In addition, stemming > only happens on non-wildcard terms. So, my first thought would be to convert > "I need help with a foo" into "need need* help help* with with* foo foo*". > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > -- > Cory Ondrejka > cory.ondre...@gmail.com > http://ondrejka.net/
